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    Educating Rita

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    the World – Educating Rita • Educating Rita 1991 Director by Willy Russell • EDUCATION = CHOICE • Explores of a variety of texts that deal with aspects of growing up and transitioning into new phases of an individual’s life. ( Growth and change occurs CONTRAST: • Male/ Female • Educated class/ Working Class • Disillusioned/ Cynical/ Enthusiastic • Elite “Howards End” E.M. Forster/ Mass culture “Ruby Fruit Jungle” Rita Mae Brown CONFLICT:

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    Educating Rita

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    "Educating Rita" Director: Lewis Gilbert Screenwriter: Willy Russell Released: 1983 With Julie Walters‚ Michael Caine‚ and others Rita (Julie Walters) is a twenty-six years old hairdresser from Liverpool who has decided to get an education. Not the sort of education that would get her just a better job or more pay‚ but an education that would open up for her a whole new world--a liberal education. Rita wants to be a different person‚ and live an altogether different sort of life than she has

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    Parsley Rita Dove Summary

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    Dove’s History Lesson “Parsley” by Rita Dove is a poem that tells the story of true events that happened in the early 1900s in the Dominican Republic. Dove tells the story of how the dictator of the Dominican Republic had over 20‚000 Haitian workers killed because they couldn’t pronounce the word “perejil‚” which is Spanish for parsley‚ correctly. The poem is broken up into two parts; the first part is given from the Haitians’ perspective‚ while the second part is from the dictator Rafael

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    and rarely ever does one succeed. However‚ in “Daystar‚” a confessional poem that relies heavily on the poetic devices of connotation and imagery to describe the loneliness and weariness of a young mother who feels trapped in her domesticity‚ poet Rita Dove does just that‚ however briefly – she finds “a little room for thinking” amid the chaos and clutter of an otherwise dreary life. The first line of the poem‚ “She wanted a little room for thinking‚” states this common wish succinctly‚ and the following

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    “Dusting” by Rita Dove depicts a senior woman trying to remember the name of a boy that she recalls spending time with as she dusts. Through image pattern‚ allusion‚ and rhythm‚ the speaker describes the monotonous life that Beulah leads‚ and contrasting her present life with her past life in her struggle to remember the boy’s name‚ displayed by personifications. Beulah remembers an exciting event in the past with a boy through rhetorical question‚ rhythm‚ and the speaker’s attitude towards the memory

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    Dove Case Study

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    Dove Case Study November 20‚ 2014 Student ID#10041441 MAN 71 Professor Moon Unilever Unilever‚ the parent company of Dove has more than 400 brands‚ 12 of which generate sales that exceed $1.3 billion a year. More than 171‚000 people are employed at Unilever‚ and their company mission stresses sustainability‚ responsibility‚ innovation‚ and minimizing waste . Environmental responsibility is a huge aspect of what this advertising strategy will emphasize. One of our four primary objectives is

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    Rita Dove Body Image

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    Who knew that in today’s world a personal care product would actually promote natural beauty? Dove attempts to turn portrait drawings into reflections of true beauty in their experimental commercial. A retired FBI forensic artist sketches women based on how they describe themselves. Throughout this process‚ the viewers of the ad can tell they feel uncomfortable describing their own physical features. They are dismissed with no further instruction. Another group of people come in and instead of describing

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    When someone moves into the world there are many challenges they must overcome such as attitudes‚ individuals and beliefs. In the play ‘Educating Rita’ written by Willy Russel and ‘Gran Torino’ directed by Clint Eastwood‚ beliefs‚ attitudes and individuals are challenged. The protagonists have had to question their attitudes and beliefs before they could move ahead into the new world. The main ideas that are experienced are family‚ sacrifice and choice. Some of the techniques are symbolism‚ transition

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    EDUCATING RITA INTERVIEW Host: Good morning listeners‚ this is Sam Lee with this week’s program of ‘Into the world’ where we discuss ways individuals make challenging transitions into new and different worlds and the risks and possibilities‚ which coincide with them. Significant experiences in people’s lives provide opportunities for growth and development. Going ‘into the world’ means moving from familiar experiences to new horizons. We are especially blessed today to have Willy Russell famous

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    Rita Dove Three Seal Men

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    Rita Dove was born in Akron Ohio on August 28‚ 1952. Although she has African American descent‚ she has lived in America the majority of her life. Dove has been writing poetry and other works of writing since 1980‚ making her a contemporary poet. She has attended Tubingen University in West Germany. There she met her husband‚ Fred Viebahn. Dove has also won many prestigious awards and “fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts‚ the Guggenheim Foundation‚ and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation”

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